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Here is one of each net required.
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Starting out.
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The same piece upside down.
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At this point you realise the model is too flexible and will need extra
strength.
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I faceted the model in Great Stella
to create some extra nets for putting in as struts. The faceted model
is included in the polyhedron library that comes with
Great Stella. It's listed as
Cuboids 15 TD Pt1 in the Compounds section.
Here you can see the white struts have been glued in.
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From here I started doing things a bit differently, in preparation for
finishing the model. Again from the Compounds section of the
library, Cuboids 15 TD Pt2 can be used to print out the slightly
different nets required near the end.
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As you can see, I've stopped building in the tricky corner pieces in
order to be able to finish the model. The corner parts will be added
later.
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A cap part like this can now be easily glued on to the model so far,
which makes an enclosed model, but not quite finished.
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Here is the cap about to be glued down.
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The cap has been glued down. Now only the corner parts remain.
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You'll need to build five of these corner parts now, to complete the
model. Careful with the colouring!
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Here are the parts from underneath. I glued pieces in behind them for
strength. Otherwise it would be almost impossible to glue them down
nicely. From the Compounds section of the Stella Library,
Cuboids_15_TD_Pt3 can be used to print out the pieces required
to strengthen the back here.
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Now you just have to glue the caps on.
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The view down a 5-fold symmetry axis.
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The view down a 3-fold symmetry axis.
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The view down a 2-fold symmetry axis.
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15 Cuboids - Faceted Truncated Dodecahedron
